BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Highlights) Nielsen • Winbergh • Moll • Titus • Lienbacher • Pecoraro Hungarian Radio Chorus • Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia Michael Halász
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557892bk Beethoven US 13/9/05 9:49 am Page 12 Also available is the complete opera recording: BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Highlights) Nielsen • Winbergh • Moll • Titus • Lienbacher • Pecoraro Hungarian Radio Chorus • Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia Michael Halász 8.660070-71 8.557892 12 557892bk Beethoven US 13/9/05 9:49 am Page 2 Ludwig van Hungarian Radio Chorus The Hungarian Radio Chorus was established in 1950 to perform both unaccompanied and orchestral choral works. BEETHOVEN Since its foundation the chorus has given first performances of a number of specially written works and has made (1770-1827) guest appearances at the Festivals in Bayreuth, Edinburgh and Salzburg. The chorus has worked with renowned conductors, such as Doráti, Masur, Sacher and Menuhin, and with Solti, who conducted the chorus in a number of Fidelio (Highlights) highly successful concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The chorus has made over eighty recordings, Opera in Two Acts including the acclaimed Naxos recording of Il barbiere di Siviglia (8.660027-29). Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia The Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia was formed in 1992 from members of the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra Don Fernando, the King’s Minister . Wolfgang Glashof, Bass by Ibolya Tóth, of the Hungarian Phoenix Studio. The Sinfonia has among its musicians the principal wind-players Don Pizarro, Governor of the Prison . Alan Titus, Baritone of the Symphony Orchestra, many of whom have already recorded concertos for Naxos. The conductor of the Florestan, a prisoner . Gösta Winbergh,Tenor Sinfonia is the flautist Béla Drahos. Leonore, his wife, in male attire as Fidelio . Inga Nielsen, Soprano Rocco, Chief Jailer . Kurt Moll, Bass Marzelline, his daughter . Edith Lienbacher, Soprano Michael Halász Jaquino, assistant to Rocco . Herwig Pecoraro, Tenor Michael Halász began his career as a conductor at the Munich Gärtnerplatz Theater, where he directed all operetta productions between 1972 and 1975. In 1975 he moved to Frankfurt as Principal Conductor under Christoph von First Prisoner . Péter Pálinkás, Tenor Dohnányi, working with the most distinguished singers and conducting all the important works of operatic Second Prisoner . József Moldvay, Bass repertoire. Engagements as a guest-conductor followed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, State Opera Hamburg and in Turin, and in 1977 Dohnányi brought him to the Hamburg State Opera as Principal Conductor. From 1978 to 1991 he was General Music Director of the Hagen Opera House. During this time he made guest appearances in the major opera houses of Germany, including Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Munich. In 1991 he took up the post of Resident Conductor of the Vienna State Opera. In the past fifteen years he has conducted concerts all over the world and made over thirty recordings. Since 1995 he has made several guest appearances with the ABC Hungarian Radio Chorus (Chorus Master: Kálmán Strausz) orchestras in Australia. Nicholaus Esterházy Sinfonia Michael Halász 8.557892 2 11 8.557892 557892bk Beethoven US 13/9/05 9:49 am Page 10 Edith Lienbacher Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Edith Lienbacher was born in Kärnten and studied at the Conservatory in Klagenfurt before continuing her studies Fidelio (Highlights) with Hilde Rössl-Majdan at the Vienna Musikhochschule. In 1984 she won the Richard Tauber Competition in London and the following year was engaged at the Vienna Volksoper. Since 1989 she has been a member of the Vienna Staatsoper in repertoire that includes Mozart and many of the great operetta rôles. She has won critical 1 Overture 6:25 acclaim for her appearances at major international festivals and in the great opera houses of the world. She is equally at home as a Lieder and concert singer. In 1999 she was honoured with the title Kammersängerin. Act I 2 Aria: O wär’ ich schon mit dir vereint (Marzelline) 3:55 Alan Titus 3 Quartet: Mir ist so wunderbar (Marzelline, Leonore, Rocco, Jaquino) 4:49 Alan Titus was born in New York and studied at the Juilliard School. He made his début at the Washington Opera 4 Aria: Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben (Rocco) 2:55 and has appeared at all the leading houses in the United States and Europe. He is a regular guest at the Munich State 5 March 2:22 Opera, winning acclaim for performances as Olivier in Capriccio, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and in the title-rôles 6 Aria and Chorus: Ha! Welch ein Augenblick! (Pizarro, the Watch) 3:15 in Le nozze di Figaro and Hindemith’s Cardillac. He subsequently made his La Scala début as Mandryka in a new 7 production of Arabella. Awards include Singer of the Year from the magazine Opernwelt and the title of Recitative and Aria: Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (Leonore) 7:29 Kammersänger from the Munich State Opera. Alan Titus is a frequent recitalist and concert singer and his recordings 8 Finale: O welche Lust (Chorus of Prisoners) 7:04 include Le nozze di Figaro and Falstaff with Sir Colin Davis and Don Giovanni with Rafael Kubelík. Act II Wolfgang Glashof 9 Introduction and Aria: Gott! Welch’ Dunkel hier! (Florestan) 10:50 Wolfgang Glashof was born in 1957. He studied medicine before studying singing at the Conservatory in 0 Quartet: Er sterbe! (Pizarro, Florestan, Leonore, Rocco) 5:12 Nuremburg. He began his professional career at the National Theatre in Mannheim and enjoyed a number of ! engagements at opera houses in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Vienna in rôles such as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Duet: O namenlose Freude! (Leonore, Florestan) 2:45 Danilo in Die lustige Witwe. Wolfgang Glashof has appeared as a concert soloist and recitalist throughout Europe. @ Finale: Heil! Heil sei dem Tag! (People and Prisoners) 2:07 # Des besten Königs Wink und Wille 7:54 (Don Fernando, People and Prisoners, Rocco, Pizarro, Leonore, Marzelline, Florestan) Herwig Pecoraro $ Wer ein holdes Weib errungen 4:03 Born in 1957, Herwig Pecoraro studied at the Conservatory in Vorarlberg and in Modena, during which time he took (People and Prisoners, Florestan, Leonore, Marzelline, Jaquino, Rocco, Don Fernando) part in master-classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. He has appeared at major opera houses throughout the world, including those in Milan, Paris, Vienna and Los Angeles and has taken part in the Salzburg and Bregenz festivals in addition to radio and television appearances. Since 1991 Herwig Pecoraro has been a member of the Vienna Staatsoper. 8.557892 10 3 8.557892 557892bk Beethoven US 13/9/05 9:49 am Page 4 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Inga Nielsen Fidelio (Highlights) Born in Denmark, Inga Nielsen studied in Vienna, Stuttgart and Budapest. She began her career at opera houses in Germany and Switzerland and was later engaged by the Opera in Frankfurt. She now appears at leading opera houses The son of a singer and grandson of a former choice of libretto was undoubtedly influenced by the throughout the world, including the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Milan and Covent Garden, and has sung at the Kapellmeister in the service of the Archbishop-Elector success in Vienna of Cherubini’s opera Les deux festivals in Bayreuth, Salzburg, Vienna, Munich, Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh. Inga Nielsen often appears as a of Cologne at his court in Bonn, Beethoven became journées (The Two Days), known in English as The concert soloist and on radio and television and has made numerous recordings. In 1994 she enjoyed formidable familiar, even as a boy, with theatrical repertoire. In Water Carrier, again based on a libretto by Bouilly, a success as Salome in Leipzig, and as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Royal Danish Opera in 1782 his teacher Neefe used him as his deputy, ‘rescue’ opera suggested by an incident in the French Copenhagen. Recent notable successes have included the rôle of the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten at La Scala, employed in rehearsals of theatre music. In subsequent revolutionary Reign of Terror. Milan, with Sinopoli and a number of Wagnerian rôles. In 1992 Inga Nielsen was honoured by Queen Margarethe years in Bonn he became familiar with a wide operatic Beethoven’s opera, under the title Fidelio, insisted of Denmark with the Order of the Dannebrog. repertoire, further extended by the variety of works that on by the theatre to avoid confusion with the Léonore he heard in Vienna, after he had settled there in 1792. of Gaveaux or the Leonora of Paër, was staged with In Bonn Beethoven had contributed music for limited success in Vienna in November 1805, Gösta Winbergh Count Waldstein’s Ritterballett of 1791. Ten years introduced by the second of the four different overtures Gösta Winbergh studied at the Opera Conservatory in Stockholm and made his début in 1973 in Gothenburg, after later he provided a score in Vienna for the ballet Die eventually written for the work. There were only three which he became a member of the Royal Opera in Stockholm, where his rôles included Don Ottavio, Count Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of performances of this first version, mounted at a time Almaviva, Tamino, Nemorino and Rodolfo. Since 1981, he has been a member of the Zurich Opera, singing many Prometheus) by Salvatore Viganò. Although he wrote when Vienna was occupied by the French and many of of the major Mozart rôles, often in productions staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and conducted by Nikolaus arias for use in operas by other composers, it was not the composer’s supporters had taken refuge elsewhere. Harnoncourt. Winbergh now appears at the major opera houses and festivals throughout the world. In recent seasons until 1804 that he started work on what was to be his Beethoven was induced to shorten the opera, with a he has been appearing with great success in Wagnerian tenor rôles, including Walther in Die Meistersinger in Berlin only opera, Fidelio.